Method for anomaly classification of industrial control system communication network

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure provides a method for anomaly classification for an industrial control system (ICS) communication network based on statistical learning and deep learning. This method designs LSTM deep learning structure parameters and performs modeling analysis based on a large amount of traffic data during normal operation of the ICS communication network; based on real-time communication traffic data thresholds generated by a SARIMA online statistical learning model, designs correlated algorithms to analyze a numerical relationship between background traffic and real-time traffic; and classifies ICS communication network anomalies according to an ICS network anomaly classification algorithm. In the present disclosure, an ICS test network range involving virtual and physical devices and a test platform in Zhejiang Province are used for experimental analysis, a physical simulation platform is built in a laboratory environment for validation, and detailed examples are provided to verify the reliability and accuracy of the algorithm.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to the Chinese Patent Application No. 2020109673229, filed with the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on Sep. 15, 2020, and entitled “METHOD FOR ANOMALY CLASSIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM COMMUNICATION NETWORK BASED ON STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING”, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of industrial information security detection, and in particular, to a method for anomaly classification of an industrial control system (ICS) communication network.

BACKGROUND ART

Key infrastructures such as energy, refining, and transportation are critical for a country's stable development, and ensuring network security of the key infrastructures is the top priority. With the automation, interconnection and intelligence of national large-scale infrastructure equipment (such as smart substations, intelligent chemical engineering process systems, and distributed industrial control systems), the cyberspace security issues are becoming apparent. In recent years, a series of cyber attacks on national critical infrastructure have caused huge losses to the national economy and irreversible damage to society. Top hackers frequently invade the communication networks of hub substations, process industrial systems, and even nuclear power plants in more concealed, efficient, and destructive intrusion ways. At present, the defense and hardening of national critical infrastructure network systems have been escalated to the national strategic level. Communication traffic analysis is recognized as the most promising solution to industrial system security problems. The intelligent analysis of communication traffic is a solution that organically combines the security solutions in the traditional Internet field with the characteristics of modern power communication networks and industrial control systems. Specifically, network anomaly events are extracted by using the traffic analysis technology during operation of industrial control systems, are accurately positioned, qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed through statistical learning and deep learning, and are further classified in terms of principle and structure.

According to related reports and papers, all attacks on industrial systems can be reflected on the communication network. Most industrial control network attacks may cause damage to the related communication network. The degree and location of network damage vary with attack types. “Blackenergy”-oriented combined attacks and a series of malicious code injections may cause the communication network to be paralyzed, key channels to be blocked, the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to be manipulated, and the control system to be delayed in recovery or even shut down. Since ICS data traffic presents different traffic patterns and characteristics similar to Internet traffic, mathematical models can be generated to analyze, develop, and interpret the characteristics of the ICS data traffic. For complex time series like ICS data traffic, regression algorithms are generally used for modeling and statistical analysis. For anomaly analysis and event classification of the ICS communication network, traditional machine learning algorithms are generally used for offline analysis and modeling of anomaly events. However, the existing ICS anomaly detection algorithms cannot accurately locate real-time anomalies and have a high false positive rate. The existing ICS anomaly event classification models have the defects of high algorithm complexity, poor interpretability, and low classification accuracy.

SUMMARY

To implement dynamic modeling and anomaly classification and detection of real-time collected ICS communication traffic without priori knowledge, the present disclosure proposes a comprehensive analysis method to resolve the problem that the existing classification and detection algorithms for ICS anomaly events cannot be actually deployed due to the excessive rely on priori knowledge, low classification accuracy, and high algorithm complexity. The present disclosure also design an ICS network anomaly classification model based on statistical learning and deep learning, which is helpful for the network security protection and anomaly detection of major national industrial infrastructures.

The objectives of the present disclosure can be achieved by the following technical solutions:

A method for anomaly classification of an ICS communication network includes the following steps:

1) collecting, by a monitoring host of an ICS communication network, communication traffic data in real time from an industrial switch in the ICS communication network, and storing, by an industrial server, the real-time collected communication traffic data;

2) based on normal traffic data of the ICS communication network, designing LSTM deep learning model structure parameters and performing modeling, to generate an offline LSTM deep learning model and store it on the industrial server;

3) performing online detection by using multiple short-cycle SARIMA models:

running multiple short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) statistical learning models in a distributed manner, generating an online threshold interval of communication traffic in real time, and obtaining a sequence of ICS communication network traffic that exceeds the online threshold, including a short-cycle SARIMA model training set with the anomaly, and an online monitoring data set, obtained from the training set, for comparing upper and lower bounds of an online threshold with the threshold interval;

4) identifying background traffic of the ICS communication network by using an online long short-term memory (LSTM) model:

using the short-cycle SARIMA model training set with the anomaly as input of the stored LSTM deep learning model, and outputting a corresponding forecast sequence online;

5) designing an abnormal-traffic classifier and performing numerical statistics and calculation to classify ICS communication network anomalies.

The present disclosure addresses the issue of anomaly detection and classification of the ICS communication network; and provides a network anomaly event classification method based on statistical learning and deep learning that is helpful for ICS network security protection. The ICS network anomaly classification method can monitor network traffic in real time and quickly analyze network anomaly events. The method also provides real-time and accurate source location of anomaly events for typical ICS systems, and detailed analysis of impacts and types of the anomaly events, thereby providing decision support for future network optimization, network adjustment, network construction, and network security protection. In the early stage, accurate and reliable real-time modeling is performed based on the actually collected ICS communication network traffic, and intelligent anomaly classification and detection are performed for different network anomaly events at a traffic level by using combined algorithms, thereby achieving intrusion detection, classified security protection, and security situation awareness for the ICS. The present disclosure can efficiently and accurately defend against typical network attacks on the ICS, and significantly improve margins for system protection against typical network anomalies.

Based on characteristics of ICS communication network traffic, the present disclosure deeply combines the existing SARIMA statistical learning model and LSTM deep learning model. In the early stage, through distributed short-cycle SARIMA modeling for the real-time collected ICS communication traffic data, real-time threshold intervals are generated efficiently and stably. Based on the threshold intervals and ICS network background traffic forecast sequences generated by the LSTM deep learning model, the designed ICS network anomaly classification method can quickly and accurately classify and trace real-time ICS anomaly events, implementing analysis after anomaly detection of ICS network traffic. In this way, real-time situation awareness, warning, and security protection upgrade are finally realized for the ICS network. In the present disclosure, ICS communication traffic data is collected from an ICS test network range involving virtual and physical devices, and an industrial control test platform in Zhejiang Province, and modeling analysis is performed to build a distributed short-cycle SARIMA model with appropriate parameters. Based on statistical learning, an optimized SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) model is used to calculate a normal traffic threshold interval of the ICS, and adaptability of the model is analyzed. Based on deep learning, the LSTM model is used to perform offline training and modeling analysis based on a large amount of ICS network background traffic data, with a short-cycle SARIMA model training set with an anomaly event as the input. A well-trained LSTM model can use the input to online output forecast values of the ICS network background traffic under the current anomaly event. Dynamic analysis of the real-time collected ICS network traffic is performed by using custom and adaptable combined anomaly classification algorithms, to finally achieving classification and source tracing of the ICS anomaly events. The present disclosure has been deployed in an ICS of a chemical group in Zhejiang Province, achieving an extremely short algorithm running time, a high detection rate, and a low false positive rate.

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The present disclosure will be explained in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is an effect drawing for building a test platform according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of multiple short-cycle iterations during online detection according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an LSTM deep learning algorithm according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of multiple short-cycle iterations of a distributed SARIMA statistical learning algorithm according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of cross calculation of a SARIMA statistical learning algorithm and an LSTM machine learning algorithm according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a diagram of a training loss function of an LSTM model according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure are clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Apparently, the described embodiments are merely a part rather than all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.

An existing machine learningbased offline classification method cannot dynamically analyze collected ICS communication traffic in real time or trace a source of an anomaly event. Only a type of the anomaly event is returned finally. Since the source of ICS anomaly events cannot be traced, operation and maintenance personnel cannot conduct real-time situation awareness and warning for the ICS network or take network defense measures for security audit and hardening.

The present disclosure aims to provide a method for anomaly classification of an ICS communication network. This SARIMA statistical learning and LSTM deep learning based method can dynamically generate normal traffic thresholds for real-time collected ICS data traffic, and perform integrated computation on currently collected ICS data traffic, dynamic normal traffic threshold intervals, static background traffic forecast values, traffic filtered by a Berkeley filter, and time of whitelisted events by using a combined classification algorithm, to quickly and accurately classify and trace real-time ICS abnormal events and analyze ICS network traffic after anomaly detection. In this way, real-time situation awareness, warning, and security protection upgrade are finally realized for the ICS network.

The present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, to make the objectives and effects of the present disclosure clearer.

Embodiment 1

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, this embodiment builds an ICS network test platform that conforms to an experimental environment, based on communication traffic collected from an ICS test network range involving virtual and physical devices in Zhejiang University. The platform is equipped with an industrial programmable logic controller (PLC), an industrial Ethernet switch, and an industrial control host computer. The host computer communicates with the PLC over TCP/IP. The PLC communicates with field devices over the industrial Modbus protocol. Actual ICS communication network traffic is collected and stored, and characteristics of the traffic are analyzed offline. A traffic probe is deployed on the industrial switch between the industrial control host computer and the PLC. Traffic types include partial traffic on a single switch port and full traffic on a switch mirror port. According to an overall algorithm flowchart in FIG. 1, in the early stage of the experiment, full traffic data on a mirror port is modeled and analyzed, and dynamic threshold modeling and anomaly detection are performed on real-time collected ICS communication traffic data by using a distributed short-cycle SARIMA model. In the late stage, forecast modeling is performed on ICS network background traffic by using an LSTM deep learning algorithm, and source tracing and classification of ICS network anomaly events are performed by using a combined classification algorithm.

Without any human operation and intervention, a total of Pcap data packets in the normal ICS communication network were captured in this experiment. During the operation time of about 20 hours, there was no packet loss. In addition, Pcap background traffic data packets of the ICS communication network were captured. During the operation time of about 20 hours, the background traffic data packets were communication traffic captured in a case that all devices in the ICS were in standby mode, the host computer and the monitoring host stay in communication, and there is no human operation or intervention. The specific details of the ICS communication network traffic are shown in FIG. 3, where aggregation scales of normal ICS traffic are 1 s, 30 s, and 60 s.

Based on the overall process of the method shown in FIG. 1, a method for anomaly classification of an ICS communication network includes the following steps.

1) Deploy an industrial switch, a monitoring host, a test host, and an industrial server in an ICS communication network, where the monitoring host collects communication traffic data in real time from the industrial switch, and the industrial server stores the real-time collected communication traffic; and build an ICS network test platform, where the test platform includes an attack injection platform and an ICS network security platform. Details about how to build the ICS network test platform are shown in FIG. 2.

2) Based on a large amount of normal traffic data of the ICS communication network, design LSTM deep learning model structure parameters and perform modeling, to generate an offline LSTM deep learning model and store it on the industrial server.

2.1) According to LSTM algorithm principles shown in FIG. 4, an LSTM deep learning algorithm employs a control gate mechanism, including memory cells, an input gate, an output gate, and a forget gate. A forward calculation method may be expressed as follows:

g _(t) ^((l))=ψ(W _(gx) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(gh) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(g) ^((l)))

i _(t) ^((l))=δ(W _(ix) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(ih) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(i) ^((l)))

f _(t) ^((l))=δ(W _(fx) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) W _(fh) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(f) ^((l)))

o _(t) ^((l))=δ(W _(ox) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(oh) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(o) ^((l)))

s _(t) ^((l)) =g _(t) ^((l))

i _(t) ^((l)) +s _(t−1) ^((l))

f _(t)(l)

h _(t) ^((l))=ψ(s _(t) ^((l)))

o _(t) ^((l))

W is a weight matrix, and b is a weight vector, used to establish connections at an input layer, a memory layer, and an output layer. s_(t) ^((l)) represents a state of a memory cell in the t-th step of the l-th layer, and h_(t) ^((l)) represents an output state of the memory cell in the t-th step of the l-th layer. δ is an activation function, ψ is a tanh function.

is a Hadamard product between sets. i, o, and f represent the input gate, the output gate, and the forget gate, respectively. g represents an input node of the tanh function.

2.2) A simplified LSTM deep learning model function based on an ICS communication network traffic time series is as follows:

Model_(LSTM)←f_(LSTM)(X′_(N) _(trai) ,N_(fore),Para[ ])

fLSTM ( ) is the simplified LSTM deep learning model function. This function uses a training sequence X′_(N) _(trai) of a large amount of ICS normal communication traffic for model adaptation and training. Para[ ] represents a structure parameter set of the LSTM deep learning model, N_(fore) represents a forecast sequence length of the LSTM deep learning model, and N_(trai) represents a predefined training sequence length. Through the model training, the offline LSTM deep learning model can generate, based on the appropriate LSTM structure parameter Para [ ] and the training set X′_(N) _(trai) , an LSTM model reflecting normal ICS communication network traffic.

3) As shown in FIG. 5, run multiple short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) statistical learning models in a distributed manner, generate an online threshold interval of communication traffic in real time, and obtain a sequence of ICS communication network traffic that exceeds the online threshold, including a short-cycle SARIMA model training set with the anomaly, an online monitoring data set, and upper and lower bounds of the online threshold.

3.1) Based on a selected traffic aggregation scale and a short-cycle analysis scale, generate a SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) time series by using a SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) sequence definition method.

The SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) model is obtained by separately performing d-order difference calculation and D-order seasonal difference calculation on an auto regressive moving average ARMA(p,q) model, where the ARMA(p,q) model is a combination of AR(p) and MA(q) models.

The ARMA(p,q) model is defined as follows:

X _(t)=ϕ₁ X _(t−1)+ϕ₂ X _(t−2)+ . . . +ϕ_(p) X _(t−p)+ε_(t)−θ₁ε_(t−1)− . . . −θ_(q)ε_(t−q)

In the foregoing formula, X_(t) represents a short-cycle stationary time series after averaging, with a relatively short length; ϕ_(p) represents a coefficient of an auto regressive term AR; θ_(q) represents a coefficient of a moving average term MA; ε_(t) represents a random error term; p represents an order number of AR; and q represents an order number of MA.

Define a delay operator B, and let BX_(t)=X_(t−1) such that an AR coefficient polynomial is Φ(B)=1−ϕ₁(B)−. . . −ϕ_(p)(B)^(p) and an MA coefficient polynomial is Θ(B)=1−θ₁B−. . . −θ_(q)(B)^(q).

Introduce a difference operator Δ^(d)=(1−B)^(d). Then the ARIMA(p, d, q) model is expressed as follows:

Φ(B)Δ^(d) X _(t)=Θ(B)ε_(t)

The SARIMA model is obtained by performing seasonal difference calculation on the ARIMA model. The SARIMA model is defined as follows:

Φ_(p)(B)Φ_(P)(B ^(s))Δ^(d)Δ_(s) ^(D) X _(t)=Θ_(q)(B)Θ_(Q)(B ^(s))ε_(t)

ε_(t) represents a white noise sequence, d represents an order number of a trend difference, D represents an order number of a seasonal difference compensated based on cycle s, B^(s) represents an s-order delay operator, Δ_(s) ^(D) represents a seasonal difference operator, B^(s)X_(t)=X_(t-s), Δ_(s) ^(D)=1−B^(s), Φ_(P)(B^(s)) is a Q-order polynomial of B^(s), and Φ_(P)(B^(s)) is a P-order polynomial of B^(s).

3.2) Use Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) to supervise, analyze, and determine p, d, q, P, D, and Q orders of the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model.

3.3) Use the least square method to estimate a p-order coefficient ϕ_(k)(k=1, 2, . . . , p), a q-order coefficient θ_(k)(k=1, 2, . . . ,q), a seasonal P-order coefficient ϕ_(k) ^(s)(k=s, 2·s, . . . , P·s), and a seasonal Q-order coefficient θ_(k) ^(s)(k=s,2·s, . . . , Q·s) of SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s).

3.4) Use the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model under the optimal BIC to perform fitting analysis on the original sequence, and perform residual testing; and if a residual is white noise, perform inverse filtering on a fitted sequence to obtain a fitted value or a forecast value of the original sequence; or if the residual is not white noise, use the BIC to determine orders of the ARMA(p, q) model.

3.5) Obtain a mathematical expression of the short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model.

3.6) Collect real-time traffic data from the ICS industrial switch, and generate a time series based on a specified sampling frequency γ_(samp) and an aggregation scale, with a short cycle as an iterative cycle.

3.7) Perform training based on the real-time collected traffic data, perform SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model training and adaptation in a short cycle, and then output an optimal model and parameters adapted to the optimal model, where a model in the i-th short cycle is defined as follows:

{circumflex over (X)} _(T) _(fore) ^((i)) =f _(SARIMA)(X _(T) _(trai) ^((i)) , T _(fore) , s, ‘BIC’)

f_(SARIMA)( ) is a functional expression of the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model, X_(T) _(trai) ^((i)) is a short-cycle training set for the i-th iteration, T_(fore) is the number of forecast sequences in the short cycle, s is a periodic parameter, ‘BIC’ is a criterion for selecting optimal (p, d, q, P, D, Q) parameters based on econometrics, and {circumflex over (X)}_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is a time series forecast by the SARIMA model during the i-th iteration.

Calculate a forecast average {circumflex over (μ)}^((i)) of the i-th iteration:

${\hat{\mu}}^{(i)} = {\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(i)}}}$

3.8) Run the short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model in a distributed manner, and perform real-time rolling modeling on ICS traffic data collected in real time in the i-th short cycle, where the real-time traffic data is equivalent to a validation set; compare the validation set with upper and lower bounds of a confidence interval-based traffic threshold generated in the forecasting process, where upper and lower thresholds for the i-th short cycle are:

${U_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = {{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} + {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(i)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(i)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}}}{L_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = {{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} - {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(i)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(i)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}}}$

z_((1−α) _(P.I) ) is z distribution at a significance level of 1−α_(P.I), U_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is an upper bound of a dynamic threshold interval of the i-th short cycle, L_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is a lower bound of the dynamic threshold interval, U_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) and L_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) each are a time series with a length of T_(fore), and α_(P.I) is a confidence level.

Normal ICS communication traffic of the i-th iteration is defined as follows:

$\left\{ \begin{matrix} {l_{j}^{(i)} \leq x_{j}^{(i)} \leq u_{j}^{(i)}} & \left( {{j = 1},2,3,\cdots,T_{fore}} \right) \\ {U_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = \left\{ {u_{1}^{(i)},u_{2}^{(i)},u_{3}^{(i)},\cdots,u_{T_{fore}}^{(i)}} \right\}} & \\ {L_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = \left\{ {l_{1}^{(i)},l_{2}^{(i)},l_{3}^{(i)},\cdots,l_{T_{fore}}^{(i)}} \right\}} &  \end{matrix} \right.$

X_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is ICS communication traffic collected in real time in the i-th short cycle, and T_(fore) is a sample size.

Based on a real-time correlation between an ICS forecast sequence X_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) and a training sequence X_(T) _(trin) ^((i)) in the i-th short cycle, the forecast sequence X_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) of the i-th short cycle may be estimated as follows:

X _(T) _(fore) ^((i)) ≈X _(T) _(trai) ^((i+1))−(X _(T) _(trai) ^((i+1)) ∩X _(T) _(trai) ^((i)))

A function ∩ is used to get an intersection of two time series sets.

3.9) After traffic determination ends, proceed with training iteration of a next short cycle, output a new optimal model and parameters adapted to the model, and determine newly input real-time traffic data.

3.10) Repeat the whole process until a specified number of iterations is reached.

Assuming that a sequence of actual occurrence time of ICS anomalies is T_(n) ^(anom)={t₁ ^(anom),t₂ ^(anom), . . . ,t_(n) ^(anom),n∈

}, where n is the total number of anomalies, a sequence of sample sizes corresponding to short-cycle sequence numbers upon anomalies, S_(n) ^(anom)={s₁ ^(anom),s₂ ^(anom), . . . , s_(n) ^(anom), n∈

}, is:

S _(n) ^(anom)=(T _(n) ^(anom) −t _(debug))/γ_(samp)

t_(debug) is real-time debugging time before a program runs, γ_(samp) is a sampling frequency of ICS traffic, and a time series algorithm directly performs calculation on corresponding sequence elements. The n-th ICS anomaly occurs in the i_(n) ^(anom)-th short-cycle iteration. Therefore, the number of short-cycle iterations upon an ICS anomaly event, i_(n) ^(anom) (element of I_(n) ^(anom)), can be calculated according to the following equations:

$\left\{ \begin{matrix} {K_{n} = {\left( {S_{n}^{anom} - T_{trai}} \right){{mod}\left( T_{fore} \right)}}} \\ {I_{n}^{anom} = {{\left( {S_{n}^{anom} - T_{trai} - K_{n}} \right)/\left( T_{fore} \right)} + 1}} \\ \left. {I_{3}^{anom} = \left( {i_{1}^{anom},i_{2}^{anom},\cdots,i_{3}^{anom},{n \in ▯}} \right.} \right\} \end{matrix} \right.$

K_(n) is an intermediate variable.

A variance σ_(k) of the dynamic ICS traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA online detection algorithm can be obtained according to the following formula:

${\hat{\sigma}}_{k} = \sqrt{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}{\left( {U_{i}^{(i_{1}^{anom})} - L_{i}^{(i_{1}^{anom})}} \right)^{2}/T_{fore}}}$

k=1,2, . . . , n n∈

, and {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) can measure an overall deviation of a threshold of the i_(k) ^(anom)-th short-cycle iteration, which is helpful for analyzing an abnormal degree of the ICS network.

4) Referring to the algorithm shown in FIG. 6, use the short-cycle SARIMA model training set with the anomaly as input of the stored LSTM deep learning model, and output a corresponding forecast sequence online.

An LSTM deep learning model-based algorithm for online forecasting and analysis of ICS normal communication traffic is as follows:)

X′ _(N) _(fore,) _(n)=Model_(LSTM)(X _(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ ,N _(fore))

Model_(LSTM)( ) is the LSTM deep learning model obtained from offline training in step 2, {tilde over (X)}′_(N) _(fore,) _(n) is the ICS normal communication traffic sequence forecast by the online LSTM model, X_(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ is the input of the online model, and N_(fore) is a forecast traffic sequence length. Based on a sequence I_(n) ^(anom)(I_(n) ^(anom)={i₁ ^(anom),i₂ ^(anom), . . . ,i_(n) ^(anom),n∈

}) of short cycles of the online SARIMA model upon anomaly events, an online SARIMA model training set X_(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ of a current short cycle is obtained (X_(T) _(trai) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾, k=1, 2, . . . ,n n∈

is a SARIMA training set for each short training cycle), where n is the total number of anomaly events. This training set retains a traffic pattern before occurrence of an anomaly, and also defines the input of the online LSTM deep learning model, based on which an LSTM online forecast sequence {tilde over (X)}′_(N) _(fore,) _(n) of n ICS network traffic anomaly events output by the online model is obtained, where N^(fore) is a length of a sequence corresponding to an anomaly event.

The offline LSTM deep learning model can be used as priori knowledge to validate normal background traffic of the ICS communication network. Based on a time correspondence between the i_(k) ^(anom) (k=1,2, . . . , n n ∈

)-th short cycle in which an anomaly event occurs and the online SARIMA model training set X_(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾, the ICS communication network anomaly events can be classified by using the online LSTM deep learning model as posteriori knowledge. The online LSTM deep learning model also features low algorithm complexity.

A variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) of the online forecast sequence of the LSTM deep learning model is:

${\hat{\sigma}}_{k} = \sqrt{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\left( {{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,k}^{\prime} - {\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}}} \right)^{2}/N_{fore}}}$

k=1, 2, . . . ,n n∈

, and {tilde over (σ)}_(k) can reflect fluctuation and deviation of online forecasting by the LSTM model at the k-th anomaly event, and can be used as a key parameter for analyzing the background traffic of the ICS communication network.

5) Design an abnormal-traffic classification algorithm to classify ICS communication network anomalies by performing numerical statistics and calculation on the obtained traffic.

5.1) A real-time time label error algorithm is defined as follows:

${\frac{❘{t_{i}^{anom} - t_{i}^{whit}}❘}{\gamma_{samp} \cdot T_{trai}} \leq \varepsilon}\begin{matrix} \left( {{i = 1},2,3,\cdots,n} \right. & \left. {n \in ▯} \right) \end{matrix}$

A predefined error ε is used as a critical value to limit a deviation between a timestamp of an anomaly event and a timestamp of whitelisting, t_(i) ^(anom) is an element of an anomaly event time series T_(n) ^(anom), and t_(i) ^(whit) is an element of a time series T_(n) ^(whit) of whitelisted ICS valid action time and planned maintenance event time. If the critical value of the deviation between the timestamp of the anomaly event and the timestamp of whitelisting is within the deviation, the abnormal ICS communication traffic is generated by an ICS valid action and planned maintenance event.

If |t_(k) ^(anom)−t_(n) ^(whit)|/(γ_(samp)·T_(trai))>ε, abnormal ICS communication traffic is generated by a malicious action.

5.2) Calculate average values of upper and lower bounds of the threshold and an average value of forecast background traffic in the i_(k) ^(anom)-th short cycle based on the upper and lower bounds of the online SARIMA model threshold in a short cycle with an anomaly event, and the ICS communication network background traffic forecast by the LSTM model. Normal ICS communication network background traffic satisfies the following equation:

${\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}l_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}} \leq {\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}} \leq {\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}u_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}}$ k = 1, 2, ⋯, nn ∈ ▯

{tilde over (x)}′_(i,k) an element of {tilde over (X)}′_(N) _(fore,) _(k).

From the variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) of the online forecast sequence of the LSTM deep learning model and the variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) of the dynamic traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA online detection algorithm, it can be learned that a variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) of the normal ICS communication network background traffic needs to be less than the variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) of the dynamic traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA algorithm:

{tilde over (σ)}_(k)≤{circumflex over (σ)}_(k)

Therefore, when the following inequation holds, it can be inferred that the ICS communication network is faulty or abnormal.

$\left\{ \begin{matrix} {{\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}} > {\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}u_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}}} & {{k = 1},2,\cdots,n} & {n \in ▯} \\ {{\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{k} > {\hat{\sigma}}_{k}} & & \\ {0 < {\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}} < {\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}l_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}}} & {{k = 1},2,\cdots,n} & {n \in ▯} \end{matrix} \right.$

In this case, the abnormal ICS communication traffic is caused by the abnormal ICS network or communication data transmission failure.

5.3) Different network attacks have different effects on ICS communication network traffic, especially for some types of packets. A Berkeley packet filter (BPF) algorithm is used to distinguish data packet types in real-time collected ICS communication network traffic. The BPF algorithm is defined as follows:

${X_{t}\overset{BPF}{\rightarrow}{X_{t}^{TCP} + X_{t}^{UDP} + X_{t}^{ARP} + X_{t}^{ICMP} + \cdots}}\overset{BPF}{\rightarrow}$

is the BPF algorithm, X_(t) ^(TCP) is a TCP traffic sequence split from an original traffic sequence X_(t), and similarly, X_(t) ^(UDP) is a UDP traffic sequence split from the original traffic sequence X_(t).

[X_(t)]_(type) represents total traffic of a specified type of packet (TCP, UDP, ARP, or the like) in the ICS communication network traffic sequence X_(t). Calculate a distribution deviation τ_(type) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾ of different types of data packets under the ICS network data traffic:

$\tau_{type}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} = {\left( \frac{\left\lbrack X_{T_{trai}}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} \right\rbrack_{type} - \left\lbrack X_{T_{fore}}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} \right\rbrack_{type}}{\sum\limits_{m = 1}^{T_{trai}}X_{m}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}} \right)^{2}/\left( \frac{T_{trai} - T_{fore}}{T_{trai}} \right)^{2}}$

where type=TCP, UDP, ARP . . . .

A baseline of the distribution deviation can be calculated by the BPF from a training sequence X′_(N) _(trai) of large ICS normal communication traffic (offline training set of the LSTM deep learning model):

${{Dist}_{type} = {\left\lbrack X_{N_{trai}}^{\prime} \right\rbrack_{type}/{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{trai}}X_{i}^{\prime}}}}\left( {{{type} = {UDP}},{TCP},{ARP},{etc}} \right)$

When τ_(type) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾ satisfies the following formula, the ICS communication traffic anomaly event is caused by malicious intrusion into the ICS communication network.

τ_(type) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾>ε_(type) ^(pd)·Dist_(type) ²

ε_(type) ^(pd) is an allowable distribution error of a specified type of packet.

In this case, Att_(type)=type (type=UDP, TCP, ARP, etc) indicates that the abnormal ICS communication traffic is caused by malicious intrusion into the ICS communication network. An attack type is type (UDP Flooding, TCP Flooding, ARP Spoofing, or the like).

The detected ICS communication network anomaly events can be classified into three types: malicious action on the ICS communication network, ICS network anomaly or communication data transmission failure, and malicious intrusion attack on the ICS communication network.

Based on the previous offline analysis of the communication network traffic actually collected from the ICS test network range in Zhejiang University, as well as the characteristics of the ICS communication network traffic, an actual test platform is built, and an industrial switch, a monitoring host, and a test host are deployed in the test environment, and online testing and analysis are performed on an ICS attack injection platform and a network security platform. As shown in FIG. 2, the test platform can be logically divided into an attack injection platform and an ICS network security platform. The ICS network security platform is equipped with three sets of PLCs (ECS700), one set of monitoring system (Core i7, 8086K) embedded with a probe algorithm mechanism, one set of engineer station (Core i5, 8600K) with industrial control software capable of uploading and issuing PLC commands and modifying and releasing configuration, and an industrial Ethernet switch. The attack injection platform (Core i5, i5- 6267u, MacBook pro) is connected to the industrial Ethernet switch through an optical fiber to inject malicious network attacks into a target ICS control system. The engineer station communicates with the PLC over TCP/IP, and the PLC communicates with field devices over the Modbus protocol. The monitoring system equipped with the probe mechanism dynamically collects ICS communication network traffic from a mirror port or a general port of the industrial Ethernet switch, and a Python-compiled hybrid anomaly detection and classification method based on statistical learning and machine learning is embedded into the monitoring system to identify, detect, and classify malicious actions, network anomalies, and network attacks in time.

The distributed short-cycle SARIMA model is used to analyze the ICS communication network traffic, and generate a threshold interval in real time, with an ICS traffic sampling frequency of 1 ms.

Based on the collected ICS communication network background traffic data, appropriate LSTM training parameters are selected to train an LSTM deep learningbased ICS network background traffic model in offline mode. The following table lists LSTM training parameters.

TABLE 1 Time_step 20 Batch_size 1024 Traffic aggregation    1 s scale LSTM_layers 10 Rnn_unit 35 Training time 23518 s Lr 0.04 Lr optimizer Exponential Training set size 2.6*10⁶

As shown in FIG. 7, an obtained offline ICS communication network background traffic model can fit the time-based background traffic well, and a trained loss function decreases with the increase of an iteration step size, and finally reaches about 1.4%. In FIG. 7, data on the x-axis is the number of iterations for LSTM model training (Epoch), and data on the y-axis is a loss function for model training. Figures in small boxes show cases in which the loss function has dropped significantly. When the number of iterations (Epoch) is 60-600, 5000-7000, and 9500-11000, the loss function decreases faster. The training algorithm of the model is as follows:

Model_(LSTM)←f_(LSTM)(X′₂₀₀, 20, Para [ ])

Para[ ] represents the LSTM training parameters in Table 1.

Test and validation are performed on the stored LSTM offline model. A new round of collection is performed to collect ICS communication network background traffic as new input of the model. Actual data is output for validation. Every 200 sequences collected are used as training sequences, and 20 sequences are used as forecast sequences (totally 220 sequences in one cycle), MAPE and RMSE values of the forecast sequences are calculated, and ICS communication network background traffic collected in a new round is used. The analysis is repeated for 10 cycles. The values of MAPE, RMSE, and Time are shown in Table 2.

TABLE 2 221- 441- 661- 881- 1001- 1221- 1441- 1441- 1441- 1-220 440 660 880 1000 1220 1440 1660 1660 1660 MAPE 0.092 0.112 0.059 0.151 0.058 0.059 0.077 0.122 0.107 0.12 RMSE 45.51 69.69 28.47 100.5 28.47 28.46 42.30 94.16 59.57 75.5 Time  8.10s  8.11s  7.34s  7.64s  7.34s  7.33s  7.61s  7.67s  8.62s  7.60s

In the table, 1-220 indicates that the first 1 to 200 data samples are a training set and the next 201 to 220 data samples are a test set. It can be seen that in each analyzed sequence set, the MAPE value is less than 0.15, and the RMSE value is less than 100. Samples 441 to 660, 881 to 1000, and 1001 to 1220 have similar MAPE and RMSE values, reflecting the periodicity and self-similarity of ICS network background traffic data.

A distributed SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model is built for the real-time collected ICS communication network traffic. The number of short-cycle training items is defined as T_(trai)=300 and T_(fore)=30, and econometric analysis is performed on the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model in a single short cycle. Taking the first short-cycle iteration (that is, i=1) of the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model as an example, the following shows how to calculate an ICS network traffic threshold interval for the first short cycle. Assuming that original sequences are not aggregated, modeling is performed based on ICS traffic data collected online in a single short cycle, to obtain a model SARIMA(2, 1, 3)×(2, 0, 0)₁₀. A fitting parameter of the model is

${{MSE} = {{{SSE}/n} = {{\frac{1}{n}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n}\left( {y_{i} - {\hat{y}}_{i}} \right)}} = 4.12}}},$

R−Square=0.89. Therefore, it can be obtained that SARIMA(2, 1, 3)×(2, 0, 0)₁₀ can well interpret ICS communication traffic in the short cycle T_(trai)=300, and its threshold interval represents the situation of ICS communication traffic in T_(fore)=30. An upper bound time series of the threshold interval is:

$U_{T_{fore}}^{(1)} = {{{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(1)} + {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(1)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(1)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}} = \left\{ {381.3,0,409.1,0,\cdots,0,502.3} \right\}}$

A timestamp corresponding to the time series is: {13:52:19, 13:52:20, 13:52:21, . . . , 13:52:50, 13:52:51}. This timestamp indicates that the ICS communication traffic is consistent with that in an actual site, and physical information spatially corresponds to each other.

Therefore, after the SARIMA(2,1,3)×(2,0,0)₁₀ model is built for the ICS communication traffic in the short cycle T_(trai)=300, ICS communication traffic in the validation cycle T_(fore)=300 is normal ICS communication traffic without any anomaly. A sequence t_(n) ^(anom) of ICS anomaly occurrence time is an empty set, and a sequence I_(n) ^(anom) of short-cycle iteration counts upon anomaly events is an empty set. In this case, the variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) is 0. An abnormal degree sequence is λ_(T) _(fore) ⁽¹⁾={0, 0, 0, 0, 0, . . . , 0, 0}.

After modeling characteristics of the SARIMA model are validated, real-time anomaly detection is performed on a next ICS traffic sequence with a different sampling frequency. The specified ICS traffic sampling frequency γ_(samp) is 60(s). The aggregation scale is changed to ls. The start time of running the model is 04:14:26, the online traffic monitoring model is kept running, and model parameters in the current short cycle are acquired. With respect to the current time, SARIMA(5, 0, 3)×(0, 0, 1)₁ is the optimal model.

Table 3 shows econometrics parameters of the SARIMA(5, 0, 3)×(0, 0, 1)₁ model.

TABLE 3 Model SARIMA(5, 0, 3) × (0, 0, 1)₁ Start date 2019 Sep. 06, Monday Number of training sets 300 Start time 04:14:26 Number of test sets 20 Training time 0.23 s Forecast time 0.03 s Parameter H 0.598 Aggregation scale 1 Ljung-Box(Q) 77.76 Jarque-Bera (JB): 3730.21 Log likelihood −1671.49 AIC 3362.97 BIC 3400.012 HQIC 3377.80

Table 4 shows fitting parameters of the SARIMA(5,0,3)×(0,0,1)₁ model.

TABLE 4 Fitting Standard P > coefficient deviation z |z| α_(P.I) ∈ [0.025, 0.975] Cap-    77.4433  35.953    2.154 0.031 6.679 147.911 tured value ar. L1   −0.0886  0.047  −1.903 0.057 −0.180 0.003 ar. L2   −0.1065  0.053  −2.026 0.043 −0.209 −0.003 ar. L3   −0.1283  0.047  −2.712 0.007 −0.221 −0.036 ar. L4   −0.0516  0.045  −1.141 0.254 −0.140 0.037 ar. L5     0.8362  0.043   19.289 0.000 0.751 0.921 ma. L1     0.1187  0.062    1.906 0.057 −0.003 0.241 ma. L2     0.1123  0.046    2.423 0.015 0.021 0.203 ma. L3     0.2232  0.064    3.485 0.000 0.098 0.349 ar. S.     0.0996  0.039    2.542 0.011 0.023 0.176 L6 Sigma²   4087.1591 268.775   15.207 0.000 3560.369 4613.949

The following tests how an algorithm classifies ICS network anomaly events. First, the test host is connected to the industrial switch and initiates TCP-flooding attacks on the monitoring host. Abnormal traffic increases abruptly per unit time, and traffic returns to normal after the attacks. The TCP-flooding attack was injected at 14:36:50, and the traffic increased abruptly. Then injection of abnormal traffic stopped at 14:38:00.

In this case, an upper bound time series of the threshold interval is:

$U_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = {{{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} + {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(1)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(1)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}} = \left\{ {1650.3,1750.2,\cdots,2012.3,2021.8} \right\}}$

A lower bound time series of the threshold interval is:

$L_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = {{{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} + {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(1)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(1)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}} = \left\{ {350.3,442.2,\cdots,540.3,607.8} \right\}}$

A timestamp corresponding to the time series is:

{14:36:20, 14:37:20, 14:38:20, . . . , 14:54:20, 14:55:20}

Through the above model, a normal flow threshold at an actual moment can be approximately obtained in a short time interval. For example, at 14:36:20, when a confidence interval is 95%, a normal traffic interval is [350.3, 1650.3]; and when the confidence interval is 90%, the normal traffic interval is [398.3, 1621.6]. Based on this, an ICS communication traffic threshold model at a specific moment under normal circumstances can be obtained. Because l₁ ^((i))≤x₁ ^((i))≤u₁ ^((i)), l₂ ^((i))≤x₂ ^((i))≤u₂ ^((i)), and l₃ ^((i))≤x₃ ^((i))≤u₃ ^((i)) at 14:36:20, 14:37:20, 14:38:20, the ICS communication network traffic exceeds the normal traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA model, so the system determines that an ICS network anomaly event occurs.

The actual occurrence time of the anomaly events is:

T ₃ ^(anom)={14:36:20, 14:37:20, 14:38:20}

where n is 3, which means three anomalies.

t_(debug)4, γ_(samp)=60 and S₃ ^(anom)={s₁ ^(anom), s₁ ^(anom), s₁ ^(anom)} can be obtained:

S ₃ ^(anom)={37314−4)/60, (37374−4)/60, (37434−4)/60}

From the following formula:

$\left\{ \begin{matrix} {K_{3} = {\left( {S_{3}^{anom} - 300} \right){{mod}(20)}}} \\ {I_{3}^{anom} = {{\left( {S_{3}^{anom} - 300 - K_{n}} \right)/(20)} + 1}} \\ \left. {I_{3}^{anom} = \left( {i_{1}^{anom},i_{2}^{anom},i_{3}^{anom}} \right.} \right\} \end{matrix} \right.$

and i₁ ^(anom)=i₂ ^(anom)=i₃ ^(anom), I₃ ^(anom)={17, 17, 17} can be obtained. Therefore, the number of short-cycle iterations upon ICS anomaly events is 17.

Through calculation and analysis, X_(T) _(fore) ⁽¹⁷⁾≈X_(T) _(trai) ⁽¹⁶⁺¹⁾−(X_(T) _(trai) ⁽¹⁶⁺¹⁾∩X_(T) _(trai) ⁽¹⁾), indicating that training sequences of the 16-th short cycle are approximately continuous with those in the 17-th short cycle in time. Therefore, the real-time performance of the method for online detection of ICS communication traffic is well guaranteed.

A variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) of the dynamic ICS traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA online detection algorithm can be obtained according to the following formula:

${\hat{\sigma}}_{1} = {{\hat{\sigma}}_{2} = {{\hat{\sigma}}_{3} = {\sqrt{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{20}{\left( {U_{i}^{(i_{1}^{anom})} - L_{i}^{(i_{1}^{anom})}} \right)^{2}/20}} = 1475.079}}}$

k=1,2,3 (where {circumflex over (σ)}_(k)) can measure an overall deviation of a threshold of the i_(k) ^(anom)-th short-cycle iteration, which is helpful for analyzing an abnormal degree of the ICS network. According to the above variance analysis, a normal fluctuation range of the normal traffic is 0˜1475.079.

The possibility of ICS anomaly events coming from planned ICS maintenance or valid actions is evaluated.

According to the action audit time table T_(n) ^(whit), {t₁ ^(anom), t₂ ^(anom), t₃ ^(anom)}∉T_(n) ^(whit). Based on a delay coefficient defined for ICS communication, ε=0.001, thus:

|t _(k) ^(anom) −t _(k) ^(whit)|/(60·200)>0.001 (k=1,2,3)

Therefore, the three ICS anomaly events come from malicious actions instead of planned ICS maintenance or valid actions.

The possibility of ICS anomaly events coming from significant changes in the background traffic of the ICS communication network caused by its own anomaly or failure is evaluated.

Because the three anomalies all occurred in the 17-th iteration of the same short-cycle SARIMA model, X₂₀₀ ^((i) ¹ ^(anom) ⁾=X₂₀₀ ^((i) ² ^(anom) ⁾=X₂₀₀ ^((i) ³ ^(anom) ⁾. The short-cycle SARIMA training sets corresponding to the three anomalies are the same, and used as the input of the trained LSTM model, to predict 20 ICS background traffic values in chronological order, as shown in the following equation:

{tilde over (X)}′ _(20,3)=Model_(LSTM)(X ₂₀₀ ^((I) ³ ^(anom) ⁾, 20)

The LSTM forecasting variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) is calculated, and a mean value of the sequence forecast by the LSTM, and a mean value of the upper and lower threshold interval sequence forecast by the SARIMA online forecasting algorithm are calculated:

${\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{1} = {{\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{2} = {{\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{3} = {\sqrt{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{20}{\left( {{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,1}^{\prime} - {\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{20}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,1}^{\prime}}}} \right)^{2}/20}} = 875.5}}}$ ${\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{20}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,1}^{\prime}}} = {{\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{20}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,2}^{\prime}}} = {{\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{20}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,3}^{\prime}}} = 1222.41}}$ ${\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{20}U_{k}^{(17)}}} = 1857.15$ ${\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{20}L_{k}^{(17)}}} = 482.05$ Thus $\left\{ \begin{matrix} {{\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{k} < {\hat{\sigma}}_{k}} & {{k = 1},2,3} \\ {{\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{20}L_{k}^{(17)}}} < {\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{20}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{j,1}^{\prime}}} < {\frac{1}{20}{\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{20}U_{k}^{(17)}}}} &  \end{matrix} \right.$

Therefore, the anomaly events are not caused by significant changes in the background traffic of the ICS communication network due to abnormality or failure of the network itself; the background traffic of the ICS communication network maintains the original pattern, and the underlying protocol and heartbeat messages are not affected.

The possibility of ICS anomalies coming from cyber attacks is evaluated.

A deviation τ_(type) ⁽¹⁷⁾ after BPF is calculated. The most typical message type, that is, type=UDP,TCP, ARP, is selected for analysis and calculation.

$\tau_{TCP}^{(17)} = {{\left( \frac{\left\lbrack X_{200}^{(17)} \right\rbrack_{TCP} - \left\lbrack X_{20}^{(17)} \right\rbrack_{TCP}}{\sum\limits_{m = 1}^{200}X_{m}^{(17)}} \right)^{2}/\left( \frac{200 - 20}{200} \right)^{2}} = 0.019044}$ $\tau_{ARP}^{(17)} = {{\left( \frac{\left\lbrack X_{200}^{(17)} \right\rbrack_{ARP} - \left\lbrack X_{20}^{(17)} \right\rbrack_{ARP}}{\sum\limits_{m = 1}^{200}X_{m}^{(17)}} \right)^{2}/\left( \frac{200 - 20}{200} \right)^{2}} = {4.7 \times 10^{- 7}}}$ $\tau_{UDP}^{(17)} = {{\left( \frac{\left\lbrack X_{200}^{(17)} \right\rbrack_{UDP} - \left\lbrack X_{20}^{(17)} \right\rbrack_{UDP}}{\sum\limits_{m = 1}^{200}X_{m}^{(17)}} \right)^{2}/\left( \frac{200 - 20}{200} \right)^{2}} = 0.27667}$

A packet distribution benchmark Dist_(type) under the large-volume offline LSTM training set is calculated, where type=UDP, TCP, ARP.

${Dist}_{TCP} = {{\left\lbrack X_{2.6 \times 10^{6}}^{\prime} \right\rbrack_{TCP}/{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{2.6 \times 10^{6}}X_{i}^{\prime}}} = 0.0822}$ ${Dist}_{ARP} = {{\left\lbrack X_{2.6 \times 10^{6}}^{\prime} \right\rbrack_{rP}/{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{2.6 \times 10^{6}}X_{i}^{\prime}}} = 0.00068}$ ${Dist}_{UDP} = {{\left\lbrack X_{2.6 \times 10^{6}}^{\prime} \right\rbrack_{UDP}/{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{2.6 \times 10^{6}}X_{i}^{\prime}}} = 0.6551}$

According to actual experience, the communication network of the ICS test bench has less redundant data, so ε_(TCP) ^(pd)=ε_(ARP) ^(pd)=ε_(UDP) ^(pd)=1 is set. Thus:

τ_(TCP) ⁽¹⁷⁾>>ε_(TCP) ^(pd)·Dist_(TCP) ²

τ_(ARP) ⁽¹⁷⁾<ε_(ARP) ^(pd)·Dist_(ARP) ²

τ_(UDP) ⁽¹⁷⁾<ε_(UDP) ^(pd)·Dist_(UDP) ²

The most likely type of anomaly is an attack against TCP packets, that is, a TCP-Flooding attack. Therefore Att_(type)=TCP. Therefore, the ICS anomaly event comes from a TCP-Flooding attack.

To sum up, in the period of 14:36:20 to 14:39:20, there were anomaly events in the ICS communication network, and the anomaly events were caused by malicious or unauthorized operations. Calculation and analysis showed that an attacker initiated malicious intrusion through TCP-Flooding attacks. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for anomaly classification of an industrial control system (ICS) communication network, comprising the following steps: 1) collecting, by a monitoring host of an ICS communication network, communication traffic data in real time from an industrial switch in the ICS communication network, and storing, by an industrial server, the real-time collected communication traffic data; 2) based on normal traffic data of the ICS communication network, designing long short term memory (LSTM) deep learning model structure parameters and performing modeling, to generate an offline LSTM deep learning model and store it on the industrial server; 3) performing online detection by using multiple short-cycle seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) models: running multiple short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) statistical learning models in a distributed manner, generating an online traffic threshold interval in real time, and obtaining a sequence of ICS communication network traffic that exceeds an online threshold, comprising a training set for a short-cycle SARIMA model with the anomaly, and an online monitoring data set, obtained from the training set, for comparing upper and lower bounds of an online threshold with the threshold interval; 4) identifying background traffic of the ICS communication network by using an online LSTM model: using the short-cycle SARIMA model training set with the anomaly as input of the stored LSTM deep learning model, and outputting a corresponding forecast sequence online; and 5) designing an abnormal-traffic classifier and performing numerical statistics and calculation to classify ICS communication network anomalies.
 2. The method for anomaly classification of an ICS communication network according to claim 1, wherein step 2) specifically comprises: 2.1) obtaining a network structure of the LSTM deep learning model based on memory cells, an input gate, an output gate, and a forget gate, wherein a forward calculation method for the network structure of the LSTM deep learning model is expressed as follows: g _(t) ^((l))=ψ(W _(gx) ^((i)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(gh) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(g) ^((l))) i _(t) ^((l))=δ(W _(ix) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(ih) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(t) ^((l))) f _(t) ^((l))=δ(W _(fx) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(fh) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(f) ^((l))) o _(t(l))=δ(W _(ox) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l−1)) +W _(oh) ^((l)) h _(t−1) ^((l)) +b _(o) ^((l))) s _(t) ^((l)) =g _(t) ^((l))

i _(t) ^((l)) +s _(t-1) ^((l))

f _(t) ^((l)) h _(t) ^((l))=ψ(s _(t) ^((l))

o _(t) ^((l)) wherein W is a weight matrix; b is a weight vector, used to set up connections at an input layer, a memory layer, and an output layer; s_(t) ^((l)) represents a state of the memory cells in the t-th step at the l-th layer; h_(t) ^((l)) is an output state of the memory cells in the t-th step at the l-th layer; δ is an activation function; ψ is a tanh function;

is the Hadamard product between sets; i, o, and f represent the input gate, the output gate, and the forget gate, respectively; and g represents an input node of the tanh function; 2.2) constructing the LSTM deep learning model based on ICS communication network traffic time series: Model_(LSTM)←f_(LSTM)(X′_(N) _(trai) , N_(fore), Para[ ]) wherein fLSTM ( ) is an LSTM deep learning model function, which uses a training sequence X′_(N) _(trai) with a large amount of ICS normal communication traffic data for model adaptation and training, Para[ ] represents a structure parameter set of the LSTM deep learning model, N_(fore) represents a forecast sequence length of the LSTM deep learning model, and N_(trai) represents a predefined training sequence length; and through the model training, generating an LSTM model reflecting normal ICS communication network traffic.
 3. The method for anomaly classification of an ICS communication network according to claim 1, wherein step 3) specifically comprises: 3.1) based on a selected traffic aggregation scale and a short-cycle analysis scale, generating a SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) time series by using a SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) sequence definition method: separately performing d-order difference calculation and D-order seasonal difference calculation on an auto regressive moving average ARMA(p,q) model, to obtain a SARIMA(p,d,q)×(P,D,Q)_(s) model, and using AR(p) and MA(q) models to obtain the ARMA(p,q) model, wherein the ARMA(p,q) model comprises: X _(t)=ϕ₁ X _(t-1)+ϕ₂ X _(t-2)+ . . . +ϕ_(p) X _(t-p)+ε_(t)−θ₁ε_(t-1)− . . . −θ_(q)ε_(t-q) in the foregoing formula, X_(t) represents a short-cycle stationary time series after averaging, with a relatively short length; ϕ_(p) represents a coefficient of an auto regressive term AR; θ_(q) represents a coefficient of a moving average term MA; ε_(t) represents a random error term; p represents an order number of AR; and q represents an order number of MA; substituting a delay operator B into the ARIMA(p, d, q) model, to obtain an AR coefficient polynomial Φ(B)=1−ϕ₁(B)− . . . −ϕ_(p)(B)^(p) and an MA coefficient polynomial Θ(B)=1−θ₁B− . . . −θ_(q)(B)^(q), wherein BX_(t)=X_(t-1); introducing a difference operator Δ^(d)=(1−B)^(d), wherein the ARIMA(p,d,q) model comprises: Φ(B)Δ^(d)X_(t)=Θ(B)ε_(t) performing seasonal difference calculation on the ARIMA model, to obtain the SARIMA model, wherein the SARIMA model comprises: Φ_(p)(B)Φ_(P)(B ^(s))Δ^(d)Δ_(s) ^(D)X_(t)=Θ_(q)(B)Θ_(Q)(B ^(s))ε_(t) wherein ε_(t) represents a white noise sequence, d represents an order number of a trend difference, D represents an order number of a seasonal difference compensated based on cycle s, B^(s) represents an s-order delay operator, Δs^(D) represents a seasonal difference operator, B^(s)X_(t)=X_(t-s), Δ_(s) ^(D)=1−B^(s), Φ_(P)(B^(s)) is a Q-order polynomial of B^(s), and Φ_(P)(B^(s)) is a P-order polynomial of B^(s); 3.2) using Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) to supervise, analyze, and determine p, d, q, P, D, and Q orders of the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model; 3.3) using the least square method to estimate a p-order coefficient ϕ_(k)(k=1,2, . . . , p), a q-order coefficient θ_(k)(k=1,2, . . . , q), a seasonal P-order coefficient ϕ_(k) ^(s)(k=s,2·s, . . . ,P·s), and a seasonal Q-order coefficient θ_(k) ^(s)(k=s,2·s, . . . ,Q·s) of SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s); 3.4) using the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model under the optimal BIC to perform fitting analysis on the original sequence, and performing residual testing; and if a residual is white noise, performing inverse filtering on a fitted sequence to obtain a fitted value or a forecast value of the original sequence; or if the residual is not white noise, using the BIC to determine orders of the ARMA(p, q) model; 3.5) obtaining a mathematical expression of the short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model; 3.6) collecting real-time traffic data from the ICS industrial switch, and generating a time series based on a specified sampling frequency γ_(samp) and an aggregation scale, with a short cycle as an iterative cycle; 3.7) performing training based on the collected real-time traffic data, performing SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model training and adaptation in a short cycle, and then outputting an optimal model and parameters adapted to the optimal model, wherein a model in the i-th short cycle comprises: {circumflex over (X)} _(T) _(fore) ^((i)) =f _(SARIMA)(X _(T) _(trai) ^((i)) , T _(fore) , s, ‘BIC’) wherein f_(SARIMA)( ) is a functional expression of the SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model, X_(T) _(trai) ^((i)) is a short-cycle training set for the i-th iteration, T_(fore) is the number of forecast sequences in the short cycle, s is a periodic parameter, ‘BIC’ is a criterion for selecting optimal (p, d, q, P, D, Q) parameters based on econometrics, and {circumflex over (X)}_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is a time series forecast at the i-th iteration of the SARIMA model; calculating a forecasting average {circumflex over (μ)}^((i)) of the i-th iteration: ${\hat{\mu}}^{(i)} = {\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(i)}}}$ 3.8) running the short-cycle SARIMA(p, d, q)×(P, D, Q)_(s) model in a distributed manner, and performing real-time rolling modeling based on ICS traffic data collected in real time in the i-th short cycle; using real-time traffic data as a validation set, and comparing the validation set with upper and lower bounds of a confidence interval-based traffic threshold generated in the forecasting process, wherein upper and lower thresholds for the i-th short cycle comprise: $U_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = {{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} + {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(i)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(i)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}}$ $L_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = {{\hat{X}}_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} - {z_{({1 - \alpha_{P.I}})}\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_{fore}} \cdot {\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{T_{fore}}\left\lbrack {{\hat{X}}_{k}^{(i)} - {\hat{\mu}}^{(i)}} \right\rbrack^{2}}}}}$ wherein z_((1−α) _(P.I)) is z distribution at a significance level of 1−α_(P.I), U_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is an upper bound of a dynamic threshold interval of the i-th short cycle, L_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is a lower bound of the dynamic threshold interval, U_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) and L_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) each are a time series with a length of T_(fore), and α_(P.I) is a confidence level; normal ICS communication traffic during the i-th iteration comprises: $\left\{ \begin{matrix} {l_{j}^{(i)} \leq x_{j}^{(i)} \leq u_{j}^{(i)}} & \left( {{j = 1},2,3,\cdots,T_{fore}} \right) \\ {U_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = \left\{ {u_{1}^{(i)},u_{2}^{(i)},u_{3}^{(i)},\cdots,u_{T_{fore}}^{(i)}} \right\}} & \\ {L_{T_{fore}}^{(i)} = \left\{ {l_{1}^{(i)},l_{2}^{(i)},l_{3}^{(i)},\cdots,l_{T_{fore}}^{(i)}} \right\}} &  \end{matrix} \right.$ wherein X_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) is ICS communication traffic collected in real time in the i-th short cycle, and T_(fore) is a sample size; based on a real-time correlation between an ICS forecast sequence X_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) and a training sequence X_(T) _(trin) ^((i)) in the i-th short cycle, estimating the forecast sequence X_(T) _(fore) ^((i)) of the i-th short cycle: X _(T) _(fore) ^((i)) ≈X _(T) _(trai) ^((i+1))−(X _(T) _(trai) ^((i+1)) ∩X _(T) _(trai) ^((i))) wherein a function ∩ is used to get an intersection of two time series sets; 3.9) after traffic determination ends, proceeding with training iteration of a next short cycle, outputting a new optimal model and parameters adapted to the model, and determining newly input real-time traffic data; and 3.10) repeating the whole process until a specified number of iterations is reached.
 4. The method for anomaly classification for an industrial control system (ICS) communication network based on statistical learning and deep learning according to claim 1, wherein step 4) specifically comprises: setting a sequence T_(n) ^(anom)={t₁ ^(anom),t₂ ^(anom), . . . ,t_(n) ^(anom),n∈

} of actual occurrence time of ICS anomalies, wherein n is the total number of anomalies, to obtain a sequence of sample sizes corresponding to short-cycle sequence numbers upon anomalies, S_(n) ^(anom)={s₁ ^(anom),s₂ ^(anom), . . . ,s_(n) ^(anom),n∈

}, is: S _(n) ^(anom)=(T _(n) ^(anom) −t _(debug))/γ_(samp) wherein t_(debug) is real-time debugging time before step 3), and γ_(samp) is a sampling frequency of ICS traffic; calculating the number i_(n) ^(anom) of short-cycle iterations (element of I_(n) ^(anom)) upon ICS anomaly events: $\left\{ \begin{matrix} {K_{n} = {\left( {S_{n}^{anom} - T_{trai}} \right){{mod}\left( T_{fore} \right)}}} \\ {I_{n}^{anom} = {{\left( {S_{n}^{anom} - T_{trai} - K_{n}} \right)/\left( T_{fore} \right)} + 1}} \\ {I_{n}^{anom} = \left\{ {i_{1}^{anom},i_{2}^{anom},\cdots,i_{n}^{anom},{n \in ▯}} \right\}} \end{matrix} \right.$ wherein K_(n) is an intermediate variable; calculating a variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) of the ICS dynamic traffic threshold interval generated in the online detection process in step 3): ${\hat{\sigma}}_{k} = \sqrt{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}{\left( {U_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} - L_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}} \right)^{2}/T_{fore}}}$ wherein k=1,2, . . . ,n n∈

, and {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) measures an overall deviation of a threshold of the i_(k) ^(anom)-th short-cycle iteration; predicting and analyzing ICS normal communication traffic based on the LSTM deep learning model: {tilde over (X)}′ _(N) _(fore,) _(n)=Model_(LSTM)(X _(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ , N _(fore)) wherein Model_(LSTM)( ) is the LSTM deep learning model obtained from offline training in step 2), {tilde over (X)}′_(N) _(fore,) _(n) is an ICS normal communication traffic sequence forecast by the online LSTM model, X_(t) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ is input of the online model, and N_(fore) is a forecast traffic sequence length; obtaining an online SARIMA model training set X_(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ in a current short cycle through a sequence I_(n) ^(anom) (I_(n) ^(anom)={i₁ ^(anom),i₂ ^(anom), . . . ,i_(n) ^(anom),n∈

}) of short cycles of the online SARIMA model upon anomaly events, wherein the SARIMA training set for each short training cycle is X_(T) _(trai) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾, k=1, 2, . . . ,n n∈

, and n is the total number of anomaly events; obtaining an LSTM online forecast sequence {tilde over (X)}_(N) _(fore,) _(n) ′ of n output ICS network traffic anomaly events based on the online SARIMA model training set X_(t) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾ in the current short cycle, wherein a length of a sequence corresponding to an anomaly event is N_(fore); using the offline LSTM deep learning model as priori knowledge to validate normal background traffic of the ICS communication network; and based on a time correspondence between the i_(k) ^(anom) (k=1,2, . . . , n n∈

)-th short cycle in which an anomaly event occurs and the online SARIMA model training set X_(T) _(trai) ^((I) ^(n) ^(anom) ⁾, classifying the ICS communication network anomaly events by using the online LSTM deep learning model as posteriori knowledge; wherein a variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) of the online forecast sequence of the LSTM deep learning model comprises: ${\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{k} = \sqrt{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\left( {{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime} - {\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}}} \right)^{2}/N_{fore}}}$ wherein k=1,2, . . . , n n∈

, and {tilde over (σ)}_(k) reflects fluctuation and deviation of online forecasting by the LSTM model at the k-th anomaly event, and is used as a key parameter for analyzing the background traffic of the ICS communication network.
 5. The method for anomaly classification of an ICS communication network according to claim 1, wherein step 5) specifically comprises: 5.1) executing a real-time time label error algorithm: ${\frac{❘{t_{i}^{anom} - t_{i}^{whit}}❘}{\gamma_{samp} \cdot T_{trai}} \leq \varepsilon}\left( {{i = 1},2,3,\cdots,\begin{matrix} n & {n \in ▯} \end{matrix}} \right)$ wherein a predefined error ε is used as a critical value to limit a deviation between a timestamp of an anomaly event and a timestamp of whitelisting, t_(i) ^(anom) is an element of an anomaly event time series T_(n) ^(anom), and t_(i) ^(whit) is an element of a time series T_(n) ^(whit) of whitelisted ICS valid action time and planned maintenance event time; if the critical value of the deviation between the timestamp of the anomaly event and the timestamp of whitelisting is within the deviation, the abnormal ICS communication traffic is generated by an ICS valid action and planned maintenance event; if |t_(k) ^(anom)−t_(k) ^(whit)|/(γ_(samp)·T_(trai))>ε, the abnormal ICS communication traffic is generated by a malicious action; 5.2) calculating average values of upper and lower bounds of the threshold interval and an average value of forecast background traffic in the i_(k) ^(anom)-th short cycle based on the upper and lower bounds of the threshold interval of the online SARIMA model in the short cycle with an anomaly event and the ICS communication network background traffic forecast by the LSTM model, wherein normal ICS communication network background traffic comprises: ${\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}l_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}} \leq {\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}} \leq {\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}u_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}}$ k = 1, 2, ⋯, n n ∈ ▯ wherein {tilde over (x)}′_(i,k) is an element of {tilde over (X)}′_(N) _(fore,) _(k); based on the variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) of the online forecast sequence of the LSTM deep learning model and the variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) of the dynamic traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA online detection algorithm, obtaining that a variance {tilde over (σ)}_(k) of the normal ICS communication network background traffic needs to be less than the variance {circumflex over (σ)}_(k) of the dynamic traffic threshold interval generated by the SARIMA algorithm: {tilde over (σ)}_(k)≤{circumflex over (σ)}_(k) when the inequation $\left\{ \begin{matrix} {{\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}} > {\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}u_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}}} & {{k = 1},2,\cdots,n} & {n \in ▯} \\ {{\overset{\sim}{\sigma}}_{k} > {\hat{\sigma}}_{k}} & & \\ {0 < {\frac{1}{N_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{fore}}{\overset{\sim}{x}}_{i,k}^{\prime}}} < {\frac{1}{T_{fore}}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{T_{fore}}l_{i}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}}}} & {{k = 1},2,\cdots,n} & {n \in ▯} \end{matrix} \right.$ holds, the ICS communication network is faulty or abnormal, and the abnormal ICS communication traffic is caused by the abnormal ICS network or communication data transmission failure; 5.3) using a Berkeley packet filter (BPF) algorithm to distinguish data packet types in real-time collected communication network traffic, wherein the BPF algorithm comprises: ${X_{t}\overset{BFF}{\rightarrow}{X_{t}^{TCP} + X_{t}^{UDP} + X_{t}^{ARP} + X_{t}^{ICMP} + \cdots}}{{wherein}\overset{BFF}{\rightarrow}}$ is the BPF algorithm, X_(t) ^(TCP) is a TCP traffic sequence split from an original traffic sequence X_(t), and X_(t) ^(UDP) is a UDP traffic sequence split from the original traffic sequence X_(t); calculating a distribution deviation τ_(type) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾ of different types of data packets under the ICS network data traffic: $\tau_{type}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} = {\left( \frac{\left\lbrack X_{T_{trai}}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} \right\rbrack_{type} - \left\lbrack X_{T_{fore}}^{(i_{k}^{anom})} \right\rbrack_{type}}{\sum\limits_{m = 1}^{T_{trai}}X_{m}^{(i_{k}^{anom})}} \right)^{2}/\left( \frac{T_{trai} - T_{fore}}{T_{trai}} \right)^{2}}$ wherein [X_(t)]_(type) represents total traffic of a specified type of packet in the ICS communication network traffic sequence X_(t); based on an ICS normal communication traffic training sequence X′_(N) _(trai) , calculating a baseline of the distribution deviation by using the BPF, wherein the ICS normal communication traffic training sequence X′_(N) _(trai) is an offline training set of the LSTM deep learning model: ${{Dist}_{type} = {\left\lbrack X_{N_{trai}}^{\prime} \right\rbrack_{type}/{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{trai}}X_{i}^{\prime}}}}\left( {{{type} = {UDP}},{TCP},{ARP},{etc}} \right)$ when τ_(type) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾ satisfies τ_(type) ^((i) ^(k) ^(anom) ⁾>ε_(type) ^(pd)·Dist_(type) ², the ICS communication traffic anomaly event is caused by a malicious intrusion attack on the ICS communication network, wherein ε_(type) ^(pd) represents an allowable distribution error of a specified type of packet. 